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Wednesday, April 09, 2014

While writing a check yesterday I realized just how few checks I actually write these days. I remember seeing my grandparents checkbook back in the day and they were on check #10000 or some ridiculous number. How many checks do you write each month?

I'm also down to zero cheques. My bank recently issued international debit cards that can be used so I got rid of all except one credit card. Bank acct. interest rates at 2% and credit cards at 8% to start? I think not. I started using Interac online thru my bank. I'm fine with taking them though.

At least 1 per month, sometimes two. I'm still on the original order of boxed checks from when I switched from a Bank(oA) to a credit union, 5 years ago this upcoming Nov. Only now do I have to re-order.

@Harry, I have a milkman because, well, he's just around, with his little electric milk float at 4.30 am. And now I feel too guilty not to have him, because it's a franchise and it's his business and if people like me go to the major supermarkets then what hope does the little man have (little man being generic,not specific to Rod the milkman)? First world problems. Btw, UK.

No checks in Scandinavia. They just don't exist, and haven't for at least 20 years. Everyone sends money back and forth via mobile phone. The only time cash is used is when you're dealing with someone working off the books.

I write 3-4 a year. Usually for sports pools or having a friend buy something for me while on vacation. It's always a production because I have to tear the house apart to find the checkbook. Then find an envelope. And a stamp.

Checks sound so surreal to me. I've written maybe 1 or 2 when I moved To UK, but never any in my country. We pay everything by card or online. Back in the day I would pay my bills on these paying machines with debit card, which we still have a few around.

I actually like writing checks. Seriously. I put on some relaxing music and sit down with a cup of tea, a calculator, a book of stamps, a page of return labels, and a fountain pen. It turns a monotonous chore into a pleasant experience and sort of eases the pain of the whole draining-of-my-bank-account thing.

2-3. Mostly for tournament entries (I have tried to get them to take online entries but the paypal feed eat into the tournament payouts too much). I used to pay rent by check, but now that I bought, I deal with a savvy mortgage company. Checks are still necessary in the us for person to person payments. Joe Schmo isn't set up to take online payments.

A couple years ago someone tried to pay my work via cheque. Everyone just looked at each other confused. In the end they called the financial controller who dais fine, well take it and bank it - come back in a week when is cleared.

Most places in the UK stopped even taking cheques back in 2010. These days you just get a person's bank account number and sort code and do an online transfer. Always amazes me that the US is so far behind-especially with chip and pin for credit cards!

I hadn't written a check in years, then kiddo started school & I probably write 10 a year. Had considered getting rid of them, but now glad I didn't. It's also a nice way to keep track of charitable contributions when you're getting tax stuff together.

I hadn't written a check in years, then kiddo started school & I probably write 10 a year. Had considered getting rid of them, but now glad I didn't. It's also a nice way to keep track of charitable contributions when you're getting tax stuff together.

Literally the last check I wrote was back in 2003 and it was on the acct. of the restaurant I managed and only because the home office failed to pay for our food delivery the week before, so I had to find a check (harder than you'd think when you never have to use them, the other manager who had been there longer than me didn't even know we had them), do a fast countdown of registers, rush to the bank to deposit the money, get back to the store, check the inventory then manually figure the prices and taxes and write the check, all in 20 minutes so we could get food to people.

I write one for my car and send it in with the voucher - just so I can send in more when I want.

Other then that, an occasional charitable donation, though those are mostly online. And buying popcorn/giftwrap/whatever for some kids' fundraiser.

Everything else is auto-pay. There was a woman recently in Michigan who was found dead after a 6 years but all her bills were on autopay and no one noticed. A neighbor thought she moved away and mowed the lawn. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/03/12/new-developments-in-the-case-of-the-mysterious-mummified-woman-supposedly-dead-and-unfound-for-six-years/

I write them for the utilities that charge for online payments--water, electric, gas--unless I'm late, always a possibility.

But I have a friend who uses checks everywhere. The grocery store, Macy's, wherever. If she wants something from Amazon, she writes me a check and I order it with my CC. She distrusts credit/debit cards and hates using her own cards.

I write tons of checks! For the cleaning lady, cheer stuff for my daughter, school field trips, etc... I have to carry it everywhere because I never know when I'm going to have to buy a necessity for a kid. But, I never write checks at stores. I rarely use cash.

Hello.I am so a lurker. I use one check basically for rent An online check for Electric. Tey charge you to use a credit card and re don't accept Visa. sometimes I use money orders from the Post Office. All other bills are online. I have an aunt who does not use credit cards or debit cards. Only cash and checks.

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